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What Westcott took from Seaforth
`better than pocketful of diamonds'
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Sunday school class. We were so proud of the row of red stars
opposite our names on her wall chart showing our attendance,"
he said.
Westcott also talked about an important letter he received
from a Northside minister, Rev. Workman, when he was sent to
Toronto General Hospital with an eye injury he received while
working for the Seaforth PUC in 1946.
"Mail is an important way of communicating and is
especially welcome when you are 100 miles away in a strange
hospital. I think I hung on to it all these years for it told me that
someone outside my family was thinking about me," he said.
Outlining his career in Toronto from junior reporter at the
Toronto Telegram to deputy minister for Bill Davis to Metro
Toronto police commissioner, member of the National Parole
Board and special assistant to Finance Minister Michael
Wilson, Westcott looked back to Seaforth for the reason for his
success.
"I realized after a couple of years that I took something
magic from this town when I left. I was blessed with an
indefinable quality often called small town native intelligence.
And, 1 got it here," said Westcott.
"As I've said before - the Harvard School of Business could
not have given me what I learned growing up in Seaforth," he
said.
More than 80 members of the congregation at Northside
United Church, past and present, submitted contributions to a
time capsule on Sunday that will be opened in 60 years at the
church's 200th anniversary.
Including family histories, family trees and pictures and
letters to the future, the time capsule submissions will he sealed
and placed inside an oak box that will be mounted at Northside
United Church.
"We're leaving it open for five or six more weeks for anyone
who still wants to be included. We think we'll reach the 100
mark with the number of submissions," said organizer Bruce
Whitmore.
Steckle plans to continue investigating
packers' profits as ag committee chair
By Ann Harvey
Shoreline Beacon Editor
Continuing to investigate
huge profits made by packers
following discovery of a case
of BSE in a Canadian cow is
on the agenda for Huron
Bruce MP Paul Steckle.
The MP, who was
unanimously re-elected as the
chair of the Standing
Committee on Agriculture
and Agri -Food on Tuesday,
has been chair for the last two
years.
He said working in a
minority government is not a
problem to him.
The 12 -member committee
has five Liberal members and
seven opposition members.
"We're operating, in my
opinion, the way a committee
should operate. Input
shouldn't come from one side
but it should come from all
sides of the House.
"That's what democracy is
all about."
Before the elections, during
the 37th Parliament, he first
began addressing the issue of
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packers profits after the May pound for on the rail
20, 2003, discovery that a (slaughtered weight), they
Wanham, Alta., cow had were taking less than $1 for."
bovine spongiform Steckle said the price for
encephalopathy (mad cow animals over 30 months old
disease) before it was (and consequently old enough
condemned for suspected to have BSE) was so low that
pneumonia. it cost the farmers to sell
Countries throughout the them.
world immediately closed "There wasn't enough
their borders to Canadian money to pay trucking. And
cattle and other animals and yet, there's a huge demand for
farmers suffered. that product."
Steckle said the packers The older beef is used for
took advantage of salami, bologna and fast food
government programs. burgers.
"Basically what happened "You wouldn't make a
was a year ago we brought steak out of that because it'd
out a fairly hefty program. As probably be tough but make
soon as the program hit the hamburgers out of it and
market the cattle prices they're wonderful."
dropped." The MP said there is no
But that was only prices doubt that the packers made
paid to farmers not the retail huge profits from the
market. situation.
"That price didn't drop. "We already know because
Farmers took a huge bath. the Attorney -General in the
Animals that they were Province of Alberta called
getting $1.45 to $ I.55 a their hooks in. The
Excellent expected
yields p
conclusion was they had done
nothing wrong."
The committee is having
auditors examine those books
and report.
"At the end of the day we'll
know what kind of
percentage of profits they
made.
"If there's wrong -doing
suspected then the committee
would take whatever action
they feel appropriate. We
have no capacity to lay
charges.
"We could refer it to the
competition bureau. They
could do a full forensic audit.
They could, if it was deemed
necessary, lay charges."
This issue is part of a larger
problem the committee want
to address, he said.
"We feel that there's been a
culture develop in the
slaughter capacity industry of
this country. They believe
they can take whatever they
want out of the marketplace."
for 95 per cent of local crops
From Pogo 1
crops made up much of their
lacking maturity and most of
those concerns have
disappeared.
"Things are good from a
yield perspective. Things are
way better than we should
have expected," said
Johnson.
"Ninety-five per cent of the
crop is going to have good
test weights. We're hearing
excellent yields out there,"
said Johnson.
Late May planted corn is
still in trouble, but Johnson
said that he expects its yields
to he alright.
April planted corn is
having "ahsolutely
tremendous yields." he
explained.
And, after three years of
poor soy Kean crops yields
are hack to relatively normal
levels.
"Fanners were absolutely
pleasantly surprised as they
went to the field to harvest
their soy beans," said
Johnson.
"Things are just a totally
different picture from the end
of August to the end of
September," said Johnson.
Last weeks frost has had a
small impact on crops, but
Johnson recnforce that it
didn't happen until after a
month of awesome weather.
"For most producers we
got far enough along before
we got significant frost to
hurt things," said Johnson.
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